A general term for food crops. "Five Grains" is spoken in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. "The Analects of Confucius": "The four bodies are not diligent, and the grains are not divided." But there are different explanations. One is millet, millet, wheat and rice. Speaking of millet, millet, wheat, millet, marijuana. The main difference between these two statements is whether there is rice or hemp. The reason for the inconsistency was that there were more than five kinds of crops at that time, as evidenced by the existence of the theory of "100 grains", "6 grains" and "9 grains", and the varieties of crops were different from place to place. The popularity of the theory of "five grains" is obviously caused by the influence of five elements. Therefore, generally speaking, grain refers to several major food crops.
"Three Character Classics, Six Livestock" mentioned:
Horses, cows, sheep, chickens, dogs and tapirs (that is, pigs) are all fed by people.
The eight characters are: the year, month, day and hour of birth, generally based on the lunar calendar, that is, arranged in heavenly stems and earthly branches.
For example: 20051October 27th (lunar calendar) 165438+ 19 o'clock, yiyou year1October 26th, with eight characters: yiyou, dinghai, Mao Yi and bingxu.
When everyone is born, it is the birthday of that person.